Famed US mountaineer Hilaree Nelson is missing on the world's eighth tallest peak after reportedly falling into a deep crevasse during a ski descent.
The North Face-sponsored athlete and mother of two earlier on Monday reached the summit of Mount (...)
Nepal's new prime minister will visit India next month on his first foreign visit, seeking to repair the strained relationship between the neighbors, an official said Wednesday.
Nepal's relationship with India — which is often accused of acting as a (...)
China said Friday that it would help Nepal develop its power industry to alleviate severe electricity outages that can last up to 12 hours a day in the Himalayan nation, where Beijing is trying to increase influence and investment, AP (...)
A bus has veered off a mountain road in west Nepal, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 29.
Police say they believe the driver lost control because of a punctured tire. The crash occurred near Sahajpur, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) (...)
Nepal is signing an agreement Tuesday for an Indian company to build a $1 billion hydroelectricity plant to boost supplies in the energy-starved Himalayan nation and to export power to India, AP reported.
The move comes as regional leaders, (...)
A Nepal bus packed with people veered off a mountain highway, killing 14 and injuring dozens, police said Saturday.
The bus was carrying nearly 100 people, most of them Nepalese. It drove about 100 meters (330 feet) off the road down a steep (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1435, Oct 16, 2014, SPA -- Search and rescue teams on army helicopters spotted the bodies of eight more trekkers along a popular mountain trail in central Nepal that was buried in avalanches and blizzards, raising the death toll to 20, (...)
AlHijjah 3, 1435, Sep 27, 2014, SPA -- A Nepalese mountaineering official says a Japanese climber attempting to scale the world's eighth-highest peak slipped and was killed, becoming the first casualty of the autumn climbing season, according to (...)
AlQa'dah 28, 1435, Sep 23, 2014, SPA -- A jeep veered off a mountainous road in western Nepal on Tuesday, killing 11 people, police said.
The jeep rolled about 200 meters (650 feet) down a steep hill before it was stopped by trees. Police and local (...)
Nepal on Wednesday ended its search for bodies buried in a massive landslide over the weekend after recovering few of the 156 victims.
"We will not look for any more bodies, instead we will be focusing on helping those people who lost their homes (...)
A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried a house in a west Nepal village, killing nine members of the same family, police said Friday.
Police official Nishant Shrivastav said the landslide buried the house around midnight in Aglung village, (...)
A bus veered off a mountain road and fell into a river in western Nepal on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 25 others, police said.
Police said the bus rolled about 100 meters (320 feet) before it plunged into the river near Lamachaur (...)
Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak, (...)
An Indian jetliner with 170 people on board caught fire while landing in Nepal's capital on Saturday, but there were no casualties reported, AP reported.
The right wheels of the Airbus 320 operated by budget airline Indigo caught fire during the (...)
Nepal's government on Sunday summoned for next week the newly elected Constituent Assembly, a month behind schedule after the president and the head of government resolved their differences, AP reported.
The assembly will attempt to write a new (...)
Two buses have crashed into rivers in western Nepal in separate accidents that have killed eight Nepalese people and six Indian tourists.
According to AP, Administrator Yagyaraj Bohara says one bus skidded off a road and fell into a river early (...)
Two buses have crashed into rivers in western Nepal in separate accidents that have killed eight Nepalese people and six Indian tourists, AP reported.
Administrator Yagyaraj Bohara says one bus skidded off a road and fell into a river early (...)
A bus has veered off a mountain road in western Nepal, killing 11 people and injuring 34, AP reported.
According to government administrator Sagar Mani Parajuli, the bus went off the road and rolled for another 300 meters (990 feet).
Residents and (...)
A landslide swept away part of a village in northeastern Nepal, killing at least six people, an official said Tuesday.
The landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall that struck Khimti village overnight while people were sleeping. At least half a (...)
A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a helicopter.
The aircraft picked up 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura at Camp 2 and flew him to the base camp and then to Katmandu on (...)
A mountaineering official says a truce has been reached between three foreign climbers and Nepalese Sherpa guides who were involved in a fist fight on Mount Everest. However, two of the foreigners returned to Nepal's capital and were undecided if (...)
Nepal's major political parties have agreed to form an interim government led by the Supreme Court chief justice and hold elections in June, likely ending a deadlock that left the nation without a fully functioning government since last year.
The (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1433, Oct 26, 2012, SPA -- A Nepalese official says three foreign trekkers have died in separate incidents in a mountainous area of the Himalayan country this week.
Police official Rajendra Pokhrel in Mustang district said Friday that a (...)
AlQa'dah 7, 1433, Sep 23, 2012, SPA - An avalanche swept away climbers on a Himalayan peak in Nepal on Sunday, leaving at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said.
Police official Basanta Bahadur Kuwar said the bodies of a Nepalese (...)
Police in Nepal say a bus veered off a highway and plunged into a river, killing at least nine people and injuring 18 more in the mountainous nation's second road disaster in as many days.
The bus rolled some 100 meters (330 feet) from the highway (...)